Until Mesquite ventriloquist Terry Fator won the $1 million grand prize on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, ventriloquism may have seemed like a vaudeville act of yesteryear. Mark Goffman pulls back the curtain on the big time ventriloquism industry.
How does the recent past inform our preset culture and what was so great about the 1980s anyway?
How did Mexico gain its independence in 1910 and how did the revolution transform the country and its relationships with the United States and the rest of the world?
What is necessary for human survival in space and how long can a person reasonably expect to thrive in such an inhospitable, zero-gravity environment?
What does it take to go the distance when the distance is over 3,000 miles? We’ll talk this hour with Marshall Ulrich who recounts his incredible experiences in the new book “Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner’s Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America” (Avery, 2011).
How do our beliefs about language affect our identities and impressions of others? We’ll spend this hour with Robert Lane Greene, international correspondent for The Economist and author of the book “You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity” (Delacorte Press, 2011).
The veteran banking dynamo talks about navigating financial crisis, and how to grow commercial banking in Texas.
One year later, what do we know about the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the effort to plug the well? We’ll talk this hour with Joel Achenbach, staff writer for The Washington Post and author of the new book “A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to […]
How did an enthusiasm for nature and agriculture influence American governance? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Andrea Wulf, whose new book is “Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation” (Knopf, 2011).
Which is the fiercest creature in today’s woods and how close do they get to our towns and cites? You might be surprised. We’ll talk this hour with poet and American University of Paris instructor Jeffrey Greene, whose new book is “The Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest” (University of Virginia Press, 2011).
